Timeline of Specialty Group (CGSG)

Created November 2003 Updated March 2009 by Yu Zhou Updated February and April 2015 & 2018 by Guo Chen

Introduction (By Yifei Sun, 2003)

The purpose of this Timeline is to record the major events in the Geography Specialty Group (CGSG). For each year, I try to include a few items in the report: major prizes and awards to CGSG members, journals with China Geography as the focus, major books published by CGSG members, and conferences on China geography, among others. I also compile a list of CGSG officers from the very beginning (Appendix B). I try to include all “significant” events in the report, though there exist significant gaps in the report particularly in 1980s, because of the lack of information.

Materials included in the Timeline are primarily extracted from the CGSG annual reports and newsletters. During the compiling process, I have received help from many CGSG members. I want to thank Kam Wing Chan, C. Cindy Fan, Larry Ma, Clifton Pannell, Stanley Toops, Gregory Veeck, and Jack Williams for providing valuable information about the history of China Geography Specialty Group. Particularly, I want to thank Clifton Pannell for writing a memo on the early history of our group (Appendix A) and Jack F. Williams for sharing with me his article “Geographers and China” (Issues and Studies, 38(4):217247). Both Clifton and Jack also have provided me the early issues of CGSG newsletters and annual reports. I also want to express my gratitude to the AAG central office for providing numerous volumes of CGSG annual reports and newsletters. Finally, I want to thank many CGSG members for providing information and corrections after the first draft was released in the CGSG 2003 Fall Newsletter. You will see that the report is not complete. If you have more information that you think should be included in the timeline, please let me know and I will make changes accordingly.

Hope you will enjoy the timeline and future CGSG officers will continue the effort. Respectfully submitted,

Yifei Sun Vice-Chair China Geography Specialty Group The Association of American Geographers November, 2003

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1953 Rhoads Murphey. Shanghai: Key to Modern China. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).

1964 Chiao-min Hsieh. Taiwan-ilha Formosa: A Geography in Perspective. (Washington, Butterworths)

1964-1965 G. William Skinner, Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China, Parts I, II, and III. Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 24, No. 1: pp.3-44; Vol. 24, No. 2: pp.195-228; Vol. 24, No. 3: pp.363-99.

1966 Norton Ginsburg, ed. An Historical Atlas of China, by Albert Herrmann. (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company

1969 Yi-fu Tuan. China. (Chicago: Aldine)

1970 Rhoads Murphey. The Treaty Ports and China's Modernization: What Went Wrong? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies)

Jack F. Williams. Readings in Chinese Geography. Honolulu: Asian Studies Program, University of Hawaii.

1971 Laurence J. C. Ma, Commercial Development and Urban Change in Sung China (960-1279). Michigan Geographical Publication No. 6., Department of Geography, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1973 Chiao-min Hsieh. Atlas of China. New York, McGraw-Hill.

Clifton W. Pannell, T'ai-wan, T'ai-chung: Structure and Function. Department of Geography, University of Chicago, Research Paper No. 144.

The Committee on Chinese Geography (CCG) was established within the AAG structure, and Rhoads Murphey of the University of Michigan was elected to serve as the committee chair.

1974 Andrew L. March. The Idea of China: Myth and Theory in Geographic Thought. (New York: Praeger)

2 Jack F. Williams. China in Maps, 1890-1960: A Selective and Annotated Cartobibliography. East Lansing : Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1974

1976 The journal China Geographer started to be published and Christopher L. Salter from UCLA served as the editor.

1977 Allen Noble and Laurence J. C. Ma at the University of Akron organized the first delegation of American geographers to visit the People’s Republic of China.

1978 The China Geographer terminated as a journal publication with the Spring, 1978 issue (No. 10) after three years. Westview and Dawson Press agreed to continue publishing China Geographer as an annual hardback and C. Pannell served as editor.

A delegation of Chinese Geographers paid a reciprocal visit to a few U.S. universities.

1979 China Geography Specialty Group was established in Philadelphia and the CCG was formally terminated accordingly. Laurence J. C. Ma was elected Chair and Franklin Gossette, Secretary/Treasurer.

1980 The first issue of China Geographer was published by Westview Press and C. Pannell and C. Salter served as the editors.

Ron Knapp (ed and contributor). China's Island Frontier: Studies In The Historical Geography of Taiwan. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press). + chapters by other Geographers, including I-shou Wang, Chiao-min Hsieh, Tao-chang Chiang, Yi-rong Ann Hsu, Clif Pannell, Jim Wheeler, and Jack Williams Rhoads Murphey. The Fading of the Maoist Vision: City and Country in China's Development. (New York: Methuen).

1981 L. J.C. Ma and E. W. Hanten (eds.). Urban Development in Modern China (Boulder, CO: Westview).

Laurence J. C. Ma and Allen G. Noble (eds.), The Chinese Environment: Chinese and American Views. New York: Methuen.

1983 C. W. Pannell and L. J. C. Ma. China: The Geography of Development and Modernization (London: Edward Arnold).

C.W. Pannell (ed.). East Asia, Geographical and Historical Approaches to Foreign Area Studies: (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co)

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1984 Vaclav Smil. The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe) 1985 R. J. R. Kirkby, Urbanization in China (New York: Columbia University).

Richard L. Edmonds Northern Frontiers of Qing China and Tokugawa Japan: A Comparative Study of Frontier Policy. (Chicago: University of Chicago, Dept. of Geography)

The First Conference on Asian Urbanization, organized by Allen G. Nobel and Laurence J.C. Ma was held at the University of Akron.

The First US-China Symposium on Human Geography was held at Xi’an Foreign language University, Xi’an, China, May 30-June 6. The symposium was cosponsored by Xi’an Foreign language University, Shaanxi Techers University, Committee on Human Geography of the Geographical Society of China, and the Department of Geography, California State University, Northridge. The co-organizers were Prof. Wang Xingzhong of Xi’an Foreign language University and Prof. I-Shou Wang of California State University Northridge.

1986 Ron Knapp. China's Traditional Rural Architecture: A Cultural Geography of The Common House. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press)

Vaclav Smil. Energy in China's Modernization: Advances and Limitations. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe)

The special issue on Chinese cities published in Urban Geography was organized and guest-edited by Laurence J. C. Ma and Allen G. Noble.

The Chinese Geography and Development, a formal quarterly journal of translations was started by Shiu-hung Luk and Joseph Whitney (University of Toronto). The journal evolved into Chinese Environment and Development, published by M. E. Sharpe Unfortunately, the journal was terminated in 1996 because of the small market.

1987 Y. M. Yeung and Zhou Yixing (guest editors), Urbanization in China: An Inside-Out Perspective. Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 19, No. 3-4, 1987, with Introduction.

1989 Y. M. Yeung and Zhou Yixing (guest editors), Urbanization in China: An Inside-Out Perspective (II). Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Richard L. Edmonds. Macau. Oxford: Clio Press.

Ron Knapp Chinese Vernacular Architecture: House Form and Culture. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press)

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1990 Ron Knapp. The Chinese House: Craft, Symbol, and The Folk Tradition. (New York: Oxford University Press). Translated into Japanese as Chūgoku No Sumai. (Tokyo: Gakugei Shuppan-sha Co. Ltd., 1996. Translated by Hirotsuga Kanno.)

The journal of Urban Geography published a theme issue (Vol. 7, No. 4) on Chinese cities contributed primarily by members of CGSG.

CGSG started the annual award to the best student paper at the Baltimore annual meeting. The winner for the first award was Jessica Lee of The Ohio State University and the title for her paper was “The spatial impact of economic development on fertility in China: a rural-urban contrast in Guangdong province.”

Winner for the second award was Pingnan Yuan of the University of Toronto and the title for his paper was “A preliminary investigation of recent desertification on the southern fringe of the Taklamakan desert.”

1991 Stephen S. Young from Clark University won the best student paper and the title for his paper was “Forest conservation in Yunnan, China.”

1992 Yue-man Yeung and Xu-wei Hu (eds.), China’s Coastal Cities: Catalysts for Modernization. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

China Bibliography 1975-1991 was compiled by Roger Selya of the University of Cincinnati with eight other contributors. It contains over 1,000 entries.

The first best student paper was awarded to Ka-Yan Chan, University of Toronto, and the second place was taken by Su Shew-Jiuan, Louisiana University.

Ron Knapp. Chinese Landscapes: The Village as Place. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press). + Contributions by other geographers, including Wei, Greg Veeck, Kit Salter, Catherine Enderton.

1993 Ron Knapp. Chinese Bridges. (New York: Oxford University Press)

Rhoads Murphey. East Asia: A New History. (New York: Addison Wesley Longman). (new addition in 2001 and 2003)

Vaclav Smil. China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe)

5 The best student paper prize was awarded to Ka-yan Chan, University of Toronto and the second best student paper award went to Shew-Julian Su at Louisiana State University.

Shiu Luk and Joe Whitney. Megaproject: the Three Gorges Project (M.E. Sharpe) 1994 Y. M. Yeung and David K. Y. Chu (eds.), Guangdong: Survey of a Province Undergoing Rapid Change. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Edmonds, Richard L. Patterns of China's Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection. (New York: Routledge).

Rhoads Murphey. Fifty years of China to Me: Personal Recollections of 1942-1992 . (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Association for Asian Studies)

Kam Wing Chan. Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in the Post-1949 China (Oxford University Press)

The first student paper prize was awarded to Yehua Wei and the second prize was awarded to Andrew Marton.

The Fourth Conference on Asian Urbanization was held in Taipai.

R.M. Selya. Taibei (New York: John Wiley and Sons)

1995 Alan A. Lew and Lawrence Yu (eds). Tourism in China; Geographic, Political, and Economic Perspective (Westview Press)

1996 Y. M. Yeung was awarded OBE in his contributions to urban and regional studies.

The journal Chinese Environment and Development was terminated because of the small market.

Piper R. Gaubatz. Beyond the Great Wall: Urban Form and Transformation on the Chinese Frontier (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press)

Fu-Chen Lo and Yue-man Yeung (eds). Emerging world cities in Pacific Asia (Tokyo, New York: United Nations University Press)

Y. M. Yeung and Yun-wing Sung (eds.) Shanghai : Transformation and Modernization Under China's Open Policy (Hong Kong : Chinese University Press)

1997 The best student paper prize was awarded to Alana Boland of the University of Washington.

The Fifth Conference on Asian Urbanization was held in London.

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The Second US-China Symposium on Human Geography was held June 23-25, 1997 at Xi’an Foreign language University, Xi’an, China. The symposium was co-sponsored by Xi’an Foreign Language University, The Committee on Human Geography of the geographical Society of China, the Department of Geography, California State University Northridge, and the Association of American Geographers. The co-organizers were Prof. Wang Xingzhong of Xi’an Foreign language University and Prof. I-Shou Wang of California State University Northridge.

George C.S. Lin. Red Capitalism in South China (Vancouver: UBC Press)

Anthony Gar-On Yeh, Xueqiang Xu and Xiaopei Yan (eds.). Urban Planning and Planning Education under Economic Reform in China (Hong Kong: Centre for Urban Planning and Environment Management, University of Hong Kong)

Shahid Yusuf and Weiping Wu. The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities (New York : Oxford University Press)

1998 Y. M. Yeung and David K. Y. Chu (eds.), Guangdong: Survey of a Province Undergoing Rapid Change. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2nd edition.

Fu-chen Lo and Yue-man Yeung (eds.), Globalization and the World of Large Cities. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.

Almost 300 geographers met at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on the theme of China Towards the 21st Century, with about 200 geographers from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.

George C.S. Lin was awarded the Outstanding teaching Award by the University of Hong Kong.

Youqin Huang was awarded the best student paper.

Youtian Hsing. Making Capitalism in China (New York: Oxford University Press)

Ron Knapp. China’s Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, And Household Ornamentation. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press)

Tim Oakes. Tourism and Modernity in China (London: Routledge)

1999 Laurence J. C. Ma was selected by the Alumni Association of the University of Akron to receive the Outstanding Researcher Reward.

Chris Smith. China in the Post-Utopian Age: Space, Society, and the Four Modernizations (Harper-Collins)

7 Weiping Wu. Pioneering Economic Reforms in China's Special Economic Zones: The Promotion of Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer in Shenzhen (Aldershot [England] & Brookfield, USA: Ashgate).

Anthony Gar-On Yeh (ed). Bibliography on Socio-Economic Development and Urban Development in China (Hong Kong: Centre for Urban Planning and Environment Management, University of Hong Kong)

2000 Richard Louis Edmonds. Managing the Chinese Environment. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Y. M. Yeung and David K. Y. Chu (eds.), Fujian: A Coastal Province in Transition and Transformation. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

The best student paper prize was awarded to Ta Liu of University of Washington for his paper entitled “Understanding Socialist Migration from Institutional Perspective: the Case of Rustification Movement of China.”

SUNY Albany started the Urban China Research Network, with funding for three years from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which supports a variety of research activities related to China.

Philippe Foret. Mapping , The Qing Landscape Enterprise (University of Hawaii Press)

Si-ming Li and Wing-shing Tang (eds). China’s Regions, Polity, and Economy (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press)

Ron Knapp. China’s Walled Cities (Oxford University press)

Ron Knapp. China’s Old Dwellings (University of Hawaii Press)

Andrew M. Marton. China’s Spatial Economic Development: Restless Landscapes in the Lower Yangzi Delta (London: Routledge)

David R. Meyer. Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press)

Allen .G. Noble, B. Thakur, A.B. Mukerji, and F.J. Costa (eds.). Geographic and Planning Research Themes for the New Millennium (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House)

Yehua Dennis Wei. Regional Development in China: States, Globalization, and Inequality (London: Routledge)

Anthony Gar-On Yeh and Mee Kam Ng (eds). Planning for a Better Urban Living Environment in Asia (Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate)

8 Y.M. Yeung. Globalization and Networked Societies: Urban-Regional Change in Pacific Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press)

2001 Carolyn Cartier. Globalizing South China (Oxford: Blackwell)

2002 Yue-man Yeung (eds.), New Challenges for Development and Modernization: Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific Region in the New Millennium. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

George C.S. Lin was awarded the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong.

The Department of Geography, California State University Northridge hosted a International Conference on Human Geography, the Third US.- China International Symposium on Human Geography.

The journal Post-Soviet geography and Economics was retitled Eurasian geography and Economics. Cindy Fan and Clifton Pannell served as the co-editors.

Environment and Planning A Published two consecutive theme issues (Vol. 34, Nos 9 and 10) on China Geography guest edited by George C.S. Lin and Yehua Dennis Wei and contributed primarily by members of CGSG.

B.A. Weightman. Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East and Southeast Asia (New York: John Wiley and Sons)

Y. M. Yeung and Timothy K. Y. Wong (eds.), Fifty Years of Public Housing in Hong Kong: A Golden Jubilee Review and Appraisal. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Y. M. Yeung was awarded a SBS (Silver Bauhina Star) by the HKSAR government for his advice on planning, housing and land.

2003 Ron Knapp (ed. and contributor). Asia’s Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience, and Change Oxford University Press. In Press 2003. + contributions by other Geographers, including David Zurick, Nanda Shrestha, Allen Noble, Bimal Kanti Paul

Chiao-min Hsieh and Max Lu (ed. and contributors). Changing China: A Geographic Appraisal. (Boulder, Co: Westview Press) + contributions by other geographers, including Carolyn Cartier, Kam Wing Chan, Liping Di, C. Cindy Fan, Charles Greer, Chiao-min Hsieh, Sun Sheng Han, Ron Knapp, Chi Kin Leung, C.P. Lo, Dadao Lu, Max Lu, Kevin Matthews, Robert McColl, Clif Pannell, Mei-e Ren, Jianfa Shen, Stan Toops, Fahui Wang, Shuguang Wang, Yehua Dennis Wei, David Wong, Gang Xu, Runsheng Yin, Yizing Zhou.

Susan Walcott. Chinese Science and Technology Industrial Parks. (Aldershot: Ashgate)

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Yehua Dennis Wei was awarded the Excellence in Research Award by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Anthony G. O. Yeh, has been conferred the prestigious title of Academician (Yuanshi) by The Chinese Academy of Science.

The best student paper prize was awarded to Angela Leung of University of Washington for her paper entitled “The role of technology and knowledge in FDI and economic development: A case study in Shenzhen, China.” and the travel award went to Wei Tu, Texas A&M University for his paper “Toward sustainable urban environmental management: The case of Shanghai.”

The Seventh Asian Urbanization Conference, organized by Clifton Pannell, was held at the University of Georgia.

Laurence J. C. Ma and Carolyn Cartier (eds). The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place and, Mobility and Identity (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group)

Chris Coggins. The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Cultuer, and Conservation in China. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press).

Weng, Q. and Yehua Dennis Wei (Guest Editors) "Land Use and Land Cover Changes in China under the Reform and Globalization", a special issue of Asian Geographer, 22(1-2).

2004 Ron Knapp (co-editor) House Home Family: Living & Being Chinese. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press (English edition) and : China Architecture & Building Press (Chinese edition). (in press)

Vaclav Smil. China's Past, China's Future: Energy, Food, Environment. (New York: Routledge)

Yehua Dennis Wei received the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from Natural Science Foundation of China.

2005 Laurence J.C. Ma and Fulong Wu (eds.) Restructuring the Chinese City (London: Routledge).

2006 Gregory Veeck, Clifton Pannell, Christopher J. Smith and Youqin Huang, China's Geography:Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change. Boulder, CO: Roman & Littlefield Publishers.

Fulong Wu (ed) Globalization and the Chinese City (London: Routledge)

Oakes, T. and L. Schein (eds) Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space (London and New York: Routledge).

10 Yehua Dennis Wei received the 2006 Distinguished Scholar Award from the AAG's Regional Development & Planning Specialty Group (RDPSG). Qihao Weng received the Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research and Creativity Award, Indiana State University, 2006 (the university's highest research honor bestowed to faculty)

The 2006 Outstanding Service Award recipient was Jack Williams (Michigan State University)

The 2006 Best Student Paper Award was presented to Jun Zhang (University of Minnesota) for his paper titled “Self-organization and Political-construction: A Comparison of Internet Cluster Development in Beijing and Shanghai.” The Student Travel Awards were presented to Mingjie Sun (UCLA) for her paper titled “Regional Inequality in Post-Reform China: Changing Spatial Disparity and Its Determinants” and Paul Hammond (University of Missouri) for his paper titled “Community Eclipse in Shanghai’s Lilong.”

2007

This year the CGSG sponsored/co-sponsored 23 paper sessions this year, including two key panels to facilitate dialogues between China geographers and others.

Best Student Paper award goes to Zhiling Liu, for her paper "Beyond the growth coalition: the case of economic and comfortable housing program."

Travel Award winner is Sin Yih Teo, University of British Columbia. Her paper is titled "Canadian 'Sea Turtles' in China: The Return of a Chinese Diaspora?"

T.G. McGee, George C.S. Lin, Andrew M. Marton, Mark Y.L. Wang, and Jiaping Wu (2007) China's Urban Space: Development under market socialism. London and New York: Routledge.

Fulong Wu, Jiang Xu, and Anthony Gar-On Yeh (2007) Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State, market, and space. London and New York: Routledge.

Fulong Wu (Ed.) (2007) China's Emerging Cities: The making of new urbanism. London and New York: Routledge.

Yu Zhou, The Inside Story of China's High-tech Industry: Making Silicon Valley in Beijing. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield Publisher.

In Memory of Professor C.P Lo On December 30, 2007, Chor-pang “C.P.” Lo, 1939-2007 Chor-pang “C.P.” Lo died in Athens, Georgia following a long illness with lung cancer. At the time of his death he was Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia where he had been teaching since 1984.

2008

CGSG sponsored/co-sponsored 23 paper sessions, including two key panels to facilitate dialogues between China geographers and others.

11 Best Student Paper award went to Cassandra C. Wang, The University of Hong Kong for her paper "Emerging Geography of the ICT Industry in China: Insight from the 2004 Economic Census."

Travel Award winners were Chuncui Velma Fan, University of California, Los Angeles, for her paper titled “Changing Patterns of Rural Youth Migration in China: A 1995 and 2005 Comparison,” and Jenn Lee Smith, University of California, Los Angeles, for her paper titled “Gender Preference: Factors Influencing Sex Ratio Variation across Provinces in China”.

Philippe Foret (University of Nottingham) has been appointed as an associate professor at the new School of Contemporary Chinese Studies.

Ron Knapp (SUNY New Paltz): Chinese Bridges: Living Architecture from China's Past, with photography by A. Chester Ong and a Foreword by Peter Bol, Harvard University. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2008. The book is a companion volume to his Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation (2005) and Chinese Houses in Southeast Asia: Eclectic Architecture, which will be published in 2009.

Darrin Magee (Hobart & William Smith Colleges), as a Co-PI, has secured $750,000 NSF grant to study social, ecological, and geopolitical impacts of large dams in China (along with colleagues at Colby College, Oregon State, and Yunnan University in China.

Qihao Weng (Indiana State University) was recently awarded a NASA senior fellowship, which allows him to take a research leave working on the environmental impacts of urbanization and public/environmental health.

Anthony Yeh, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and world-renowned scholar of The University of Hong Kong (HKU), was selected the winner of the 2008 UN-HABITAT Lecture Award - the highest international acclaims in the town planning field. The award is to recognize outstanding and sustained contribution to research, thinking and practice in human settlements development and planning.

2009

CGSG sponsored or co-sponsored a total of 29 paper/panel sessions for the 2009 AAG Annual meeting, LAS VEGAS, including the first joint panel with Asian Geography Specialty Group on Asian Century.

Carolyn Cartier (USC) is leaving USC to join the staff of University of Technology Sydney’s China Research Centre.

Ron Knapp (SUNY New Paltz) is finishing a new book, Chinese Houses in Southeast Asia: Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers. George Lin (University of Hong Kong): After a decade-long of research and writing

12 George has published a book titled Developing China: Land, Politics, and Social Conditions (London and New York: Routledge, 2009)

Kin Ma (Grand Valley State University) will receive tenure at the Department of Geography and Planning at Grand Valley State University

The Berkshire Encyclopedia of China was published on May 1, 2009. This five-volume, 2,800 page work includes contributions by nearly a dozen members of the China Geography Specialty Group, and includes one of our members, Greg Veeck, on its editorial board.

Fulong Wu (University of Cardiff) edited a special issue of Built Environment (together with Duanfang Lu) entitled The Transition of Chinese Cities (vol. 34, No. 4).

Emily Yeh (University of Colorado) has been awarded a National Science Foundation, Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems grant for “Collaborative Research: Determinants of grassland dynamics in the Tibetan highlands: livestock, wildlife, and the culture and political economy of pastoralism” as part of a research team.

Dennis Yehua Wei (University of Utah) received Distinguished Service Awards from both Asian Geography SG and Regional Development and Planning SG.

Yu Zhou (Vassar College) became Chair of the department of Earth Science and Geography at Vassar College.

Best Student Paper Award went to Francine F.X. Yi, The University of Hong Kong, “Urban Land Development and Local Public Finance in China’s Urbanization.”

Student Travel Grant Awards went to Pengfei Li, , “Evolutionary Processes of Interactive Learning: Aluminum Extrusion Industry in Dali, Guangdong Province, China” and Jessica Wilcczak, University of Toronto, “Migrants Troubled by Lack of Sex: The Politics of Solicitude for Migrant Workers in Contemporary China.”

Outstanding Service Award was presented to Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington,

2010 CGSG sponsored or co-sponsored a total of 34 sessions for the 2010 AAG Annual meeting, including a plenary session with David M. Lampton: “Chinese power: what it means for America and the world?” For the first time, we organized a plenary session featuring Professor David Lampton. Prof. Lampton is the Dean of Faculty at School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and was the founding director of China Policy Program at Nixon Center and American Enterprise Institute.

Professors Guo Chen and Shenjing He organized five sessions on “Right to the City”. Similarly, Prof. Yehua Dennis Wei and his colleagues organized five sessions on “China and Globalization”. Increasing environmental concerns in China and the concern about global environmental changes bring more papers, resulting in five sessions related to environmental issues (organized by

13 Professors Yingkui Li, Chaolu Yi, and Qihao Weng). It is also worthy to note that we organized two sessions of “Author Meets Critics”.

It was with great sadness that we learned that Professor Mei-ling Hsu passed away in May 2009 (AAG newsletter Sept 2009). She served as a CGSG chair between 1995 and 1996. She was the first female Chinese geographer in any subfields of geography in the US. Yu Zhou wrote a tribute to Mei-ling published on the CGSG winter newsletter.

Best Student Paper Award went to Anthony Howell, Department of Geography, UCLA, for his paper titled “The Emergence of Local Labor Markets in Xinjiang, China: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence that examines Han-Uighur employment variation in Urumqi’s private service sector.”

Student Travel Awards went to Xiaochu Hu, School of Public Policy, George Mason University for “Occupations, Geographic Migration Patterns, and Age: a Case Study of Migrants from Bozhou, China”, and Leqian Yu, Geography Department, University of Toronto, for “Social Standards and Daily Practice of Microcredit Programs: a Case Study in , China”

Professor Jack Williams recently retired from Michigan State University. However, he is keeping one foot in the field by teaching in Taiwan and HK in recent years.

Stockholm University has appointed Philippe Forêt professor with an affiliation to the Department of Asian Languages.

Tim Oakes published a co-edited volume in 2010, with Donald Sutton, titled Faiths on Display: Religion, Tourism, and the State in China (Rowman & Littlefield).

Yifei Sun has been promoted to full professor at California State University, Nothridge (CSUN).

Peilei Fan (Michigan State University) is a Lead PI (Co-Is: Joseph Messina, Nathan Moore, Jianjun Ge, and Peter Verburg) to conduct a project on “China's Urbanization and its Sustainability under Future Climate Change. The project is funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with a total budget of $621,496.

Xinyue Ye (Bowling Green State University) began a joint tenure-track assistant professor position between Center for Regional Department and School of Earth, Environment and Society at Bowling Green State University starting from August 2009.

2011 The China Specialty Group directly organized 25 paper sessions and panels, and sponsored/co-sponsored a total of 37 sessions for the 2011 Annual Meeting, Seattle.

Roger C K Chan is appointed as Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.

Zhilin Liu, was promoted to associate professor in School of Public Policy and

14 Management, Tsinghua University,

Darrin Magee received a $400,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support enhancing Asian Environmental Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

George Lin (University of Hong Kong) is pleased to report that his book Developing China: Land, Politics, and Social Conditions (London: Routledge, 2009) has been reprinted into a paperback version with a much lower price (ISBN: 978-0-415-66613-8).

The outstanding service award was presented to Yehua Dennis Wei, University of Utah

The best student paper award was presented to Hao Huang, University of Utah

The travel awards were presented to Yueming Zhang, University of Hong Kong, and Huimin Du, Hong Kong Baptist University

2012 The China Specialty Group Sponsored nearly 40 sessions this year in New York.

The outstanding service award was presented to George Lin, University of Hong Kong

The best student paper award was presented to Huimin Du, Hong Kong Baptist Universit

The travel awards were presented to Xin Dong, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Yingru Li University of Utah.

Cindy Fan (UCLA) has been appointed interim Vice Provost for International Studies at UCLA. She is co-PI of a $750,000 Mellon grant to develop a sustainable plan for area and international studies. Cindy has also been selected to receive two prestigious awards: the American Council on Education Fellowship, and UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Wen Lin joined the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University as Lecturer in Human Geography this Spring.

Tim Oakes (University of Colorado, Boulder) has been appointed Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Ron Knapp (SUNY New Paltz) published the Chinese translation of his co-edited book House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese (2005) in Beijing by New Star Press

Weiping Wu (Tufts University) and Piper Gaubatz (UMass Amherst) have a new book coming out in September 2012 by Routledge titled The Chinese City

15 Li An (San Diego State University) received funding ($1.3 million) for research in Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve (FNNR), China from the NSF program “Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems” for 4 years from 2012 to 2016.

Natacha Aveline-Dubach (CEFC, French Center for Research on Contemporary China) has published “Invisible population, the place of the dead in East Asian Cities”, Lexington books, 2012. She also received a new grant from the French Research Agency on Expansion of market finance and urban development in Asia, the case of China and India. It covers 3 years of research with 290 000 Euros.

Afton Clarke-Sather began a new position this fall as an assistant professor in the Geography Department at the University of Delaware

Shenjing He (Sun Yat-Sen University) and Guo Chen (Michigan State University). The triple sessions on Right to the Chinese City organized by Chen and He back in the AAG meeting 2010 resulted in a theme issue titled “Interrogating unequal rights to the Chinese city” for Environment and Planning A (December 2012).

Ron Knapp (SUNY New Paltz) is the author of a new book coming out this fall. The Peranakan Chinese Home: Art and Culture in Daily Life (Tuttle)

Stanley Toops (Miami University) is a coauthor of The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs. Besides Central Asia, the Atlas provides coverage of Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Mongolia and the Caucasus.

Liang, Zai, Messner, Steve, Chen, Cheng and Youqin Huang (eds.), 2012. The Emergence of a New Urban China: Insiders’ Perspectives. New York: Lexington Books.

Samara, Tony, He, Shenjing and Guo Chen (eds.), 2013. Locating Right to the City in the Global South: Transnational Urban Governance and Socio-spatial Transformations. Routledge.

2013 CGSG sponsored 65 sessions and panels during this year’s AAG Meeting in Los Angeles.

This year’s CGSG Best Student Paper Award was presented to Ian Rowen (University of Colorado), for his paper titled “for “Tourism and Territoriality in Taiwan and China.”

This year’s Travel Awards went to Haifeng Liao (University of Utah), for his paper titled “When do TNCs want to cooperate with domestic firms in innovation? An investigation of the ICT industry in Suzhou, China,” and Yueming Zhang (Clark University), for her paper titled “Remapping the City, Reproduction of Space, and Local State Reterritorialization: A District Merger Case.”

The outstanding service award was presented to Yu Zhou (Vassar College).

The CGSG newsletter went in color this year (design by Guo Chen, from Fall 2012)!

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Werner Breitung has joined the Department of Urban Planning and Design of Xi'an JiaotongLiverpool University - an international university based in Suzhou. He keeps an affiliation with Sun Yatsen University in .

Tim Oakes (University of Colorado, Boulder) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for his project “Re-ordering public space, governing urban citizens: evaluating the effects of urban spatial transformation.”

Xuefei Ren (Michigan State University) has published a new book titled “Urban China” (2013, Polity Press, Cambridge).

Jun Zhang (National University of Singapore) will join the Department of Geography and Program in Planning at University of Toronto.

Pengfei Li is now a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Inglo Liefner and Dennis Yehua Wei (eds.), 2013. Innovation and Regional Development in China, London, Routledge.

Memorial to Hou Renzhi, 1911-2013 CGSG expresses great sadness over the passing of prominent Chinese historical geographer Hou Renzhi in Beijing on Oct. 22, 2013, 2:50pm.

2014 The CGSG sponsored 30 sessions this year in Tampa.

The Outstanding Paper Award was presented to Yuqi Liu (University College London) for her paper “Neighborhood Attachment, Neighbourly Interaction and Community Participation within the Concept of Urban Village Redevelopment: A Cast Study of Guangzhou, China”. Travel awards were presented to Hao Huang (University of Utah) and Huimin Du (Hong Kong Baptist University).

The CGSG received no nomination for the outstanding service award this year.

Kam Wing Chan (Professor, University of Washington) was awarded a University Fellowship and spent a productive semester at Hong Kong Baptist University

Guo Chen received a National Geographic Society (NGS) Research and Exploration Grant for her project "The 'Hidden' 's Slums: A Geographic and Visual Exploration."

Cindy Fan’s book titled `China on the Move’ has been translated into Chinese.

Anthony Howell will start a new faculty position in Fall 2014 as an assistant professor in the School of Economics at Peking University.

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Youqin Huang (Associate Professor, SUNY Albany) received a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to study “The Impact of Migration on Children”, grant number: R03HD074671 (2013-2015)

Wenfei Winnie Wang (Lecturer, University of Bristol) has recently been awarded a 414K GBP ESRC grant on the “Impact of Urban-rural Return Migration on Rural Development in China - with Implications for Vietnam”.

S. Anderson, M. Peterson, and S. Toops. 2014. International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues (3rd ed.), Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Youqin Huang and Si-ming Li (eds.). 2014. Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities, London and New York, Routledge.

Ron Knapp. 2013. Chinese Bridges: Living Architecture from China's Past, Tokyo, Tuttle.

Shuguang Wang. 2014, China's New Retail Economy: A Geographic Perspective, London, Routledge.

Shyu-tu Lee and Jack F. Williams (eds.). 2014. Taiwan's Struggle: Voices of the Taiwanese, Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield.

A Comparative Geography of China and the U.S. is in in press and available soon (May). The book is edited by Rudi Hartmann and Jing’ai Wang.

Kam Wing Chan (Professor, Geography, U of Washington) was a visiting fellow at the Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Alan A. Lew received a two-year grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo foundation to examine the relationship between sustainability and resilience as planning paradigms in four rural communities in Taiwan.

Fulong Wu. 2015. Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China. Routledge, 252pp.

2015 The CGSG sponsored 61 sessions this year in Chicago. This year also marked the CGSG becoming the second largest country/region-based specialty group of the AAG (next to Latin American SG membership)

The CGSG launched its new, permanent website at www.cgsg.geo.msu.edu, a group effort by the board, former and current webmasters, and staff at MSU. Design by Guo Chen.

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CGSG restarted the China Specialty Group Plenary Series this year in Chicago by bringing in two speakers, Dr. David Ley (Canada Research Chair in Geography, University of British Columbia) and Dr. Kenneth Pomeranz (University Professor of Modern Chinese History and in the College, University of Chicago), with sponsorship from a number of specialty groups and the AAG Enrichment Awards, hopefully to make the plenary a yearly event.

The Outstanding Paper Award was presented to Ding Fei (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) for her paper “Comparative Labor Experiences with ‘China in Africa’: Evidence from Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment and Lifan Group in Ethiopia”. Travel awards were presented to Yang, Xin (Peking University) and Lucas Reyes (Undergraduate from Humboldt State University)

The CGSG received no nomination for the outstanding service award this year.

Natacha Aveline (CNRS-Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne) has been granted two new research grants: 1) PI of “New pathways for sustainable urban development in China’s medium-sized cities", and 2) WP leader of an ODESSA project, funded by the Euro-China UPC.

David W. Edgington (University of British Columbia) conducted field research in Shanghai.

Cindy Fan (UCLA) was invited to speak at the “China Development Forum” of the London School of Economics and at a Presidential Panel for the “International Education Business Summit” organized by City Club Los Angeles. She joined Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s first Asia Trade Mission and led a UCLA delegation to India. Cindy attended the Boao Forum in Hainan, spoke at the University of California Education Abroad Program’s 50th Anniversary in Hong Kong, participated in a Deans/Provosts Roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the Language Flagship in Oklahoma, and attended the Doha Forum in Qatar.

Rudi Hartman (University of Colorado, Denver), Jing’ai Wang (Beijing Normal University), and Dietrich Soyez (Geographisches Institut der Universität zu Köln) will participate in the 2015 National Conference on Geography Education in Washington, D.C., presenting papers and organizing a session.

Qihao Weng (Indiana State University) has been selected to receive the 2015 AAG Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award, for his outstanding record of teaching and research.

Dennis Wei (University of Utah) organized five sessions in this year’s AAG meeting titled Spatial Inequality, including papers on Asia. He is finishing up editing a spatial issue in Applied Geography titled Spatiality of Regional Inequality, and is currently editing two more special issues: Spatial Inequality in Asia in Geographic Review and Urban Land and Sustainable Development in Sustainability.

Fulong Wu (University College London) edited a virtual issue on Chinese Cities in IJURR (http://www.ijurr.org/virtual-issues/chinese-cities/). He organized four “Thinking the Urban from...” sessions for the 2015 AAG Meeting in Chicago.

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Dunford, Michael, and Weidong Liu (eds.). 2014. The Geographical Transformation of China. Routledge, 372 pp.

Rudi Hartmann, Jing’ai Wang and Tao Ye (eds.). 2014. A Comparative Geography of China and the U.S., GeoJournal Library Volume 109, Dordrecht, NL: Springer, 387 pp.

In Memory of Professor Chial-Min Hsieh CGSG expresses great sadness over the passing of Chial-Min Hsieh (Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Pittsburgh)

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Web Master: Jiang 2018-2019 Chang, Michigan State University

Max Web Masters: Xinyue Ye, Zheye Wang, Xiaobo Su, Woodworth, Victoria Breeze, Kent State Kent State 2017-2018 University of Ohio State Michigan State University University Oregon University University; Jia

Feng Xinyue Ye, Lucas Reyes, Enru Wang Xiaobo Su, Kent State California Web Master: Jia 2016-2017 University of University of University State Feng, Michigan North Dakota Oregon University, State University Long Beach David Enru Wang Xiaobo Su, Fei Ding, Web Master: Edgington University of University of University of Jia Feng, Univ. of British North Dakota Oregon Minnesota Michigan State Columbia University; Guo 2015-2016 Chen (as faculty advisor and creator of permanent SG website at MSU) Guo Chen David Enru Wang Yueming Web Master: Michigan State Edgington University of Zhang Xinyue Ye 2014-2015 University Univ. of British North Dakota Clark Kent State Columbia University University

21 Secretary/ Student Year Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Newsletter Others Representative Editor Tim Oakes Guo Chen David Lili Wang Web Master: University of Michigan State Edgington Ohio State Xinyue Ye Colorado, University Univ. of British University Bowling Green 2013-2014 Boulder Columbia Yang Yang State University University of Colorado, Boulder Wei Xu Tim Oakes Guo Chen Dylan Brady Web Master: University of University of Michigan State University of Xinyue Ye 2012-2013 Lethbridge Colorado, University Oregon Bowling Green Boulder State University

Piper Gaubatz Wei Xu Tim Oakes Jia Feng Web Master: University of University of University of Michigan Xinyue Ye 2011-2012 Massachusetts Lethbridge Colorado, State Bowling Green Boulder University State University

Qihao Weng Piper Gaubatz Wei Xu Hao Huang Web Master: Indiana State University of University of University of Xinyue Ye 2010-2011 University Massachusetts Lethbridge Utah Bowling Green State University

Yu Zhou Qihao Weng Piper Gaubatz Haifeng Qian Web Master: Wei Vassar College, Indiana State University of George Mason Xu University of 2009-2010 New York University Massachusetts University Lethbridge

22 Secretary/ Student Year Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Newsletter Others Representative Editor Alana Boland Yu Zhou Qihao Weng Chuncui Web Master: Wei Univ of Toronto Vassar College, Indiana State Velma Fan Xu University of 2008-2009 New York University UCLA Lethbridge

George Lin Alana Boland Yifei Sun Yu Zhou Hong Chen Web Master: Wei Univ of Hong Univ of Toronto California State Vassar College, Xu University of 2007-2008 Kong University New York University of Lethbridge Northridge Washington

Youqin Huang George Lin Yifei Sun Alana Boland Liu Zhilin Web Master: Wei SUNY Albany Univ of Hong California State Univ of Toronto Cornell Xu University of 2006-2007 Kong University University Lethbridge Northridge

Shuguang Youqin Huang Yifei Sun George Lin Jun Zhang Web Master: Wei Wang Ryerson SUNY Albany California State Univ of Hong University of Xu University of 2005-2006 Univ University Kong Minnesota Lethbridge Northridge

Yifei Sun Shuguang Yifei Sun Charles Fuller Wenfei Wang Web Master: Kin California State Wang Ryerson California State Triton College UCLA M. Ma Michigan University Univ. University State University 2004-2005 Northridge Northridge

23 Secretary/ Student Year Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Newsletter Others Representative Editor Susan M. Yifei Sun Yifei Sun Shuguang Jun Zhang Web Master: Wei Walcott California State California State Wang Ryerson University of Xu University of Georgia State University University University Minnesota Lethbridge 2003-2004 University Northridge Northridge

Xiaoping Shen Susan M. Yifei Sun Yifei Sun Danlin Yu Web Master: Wei Central Walcott California State California State University of Xu University of Connecticut Georgia State University University Wisconsin Lethbridge 2002-2003 State University University Northridge Northridge Milwaukee

Yehua Dennis Xiaoping Shen Yehua Dennis Susan M. Wenfei Wang Web Master: Kim Wei University Central Wei University Walcott UCLA M. Ma Michigan of Wisconsin Connecticut of Wisconsin Georgia State State University 2001-2002 Milwaukee State University Milwaukee University

24 Secretary/ Student Year Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Newsletter Others Representative Editor Carolyn Cartier Yehua Dennis Yehua Dennis Xiaoping Shen Ying Zhou Web Master: Kin University of Wei University Wei University Central Miami M. Ma Michigan South of Wisconsin of Wisconsin Connecticut University, State University 2000-2001 California Milwaukee Milwaukee State University Ohio

Stanley Toops Carolyn Cartier Yehua Dennis Yehua Dennis Kin M. Ma Web Master: Kin Miami University of Wei University Wei University Michigan M. Ma Michigan University Ohio Oregon of Wisconsin of Wisconsin State State University 1999-2000 Milwaukee Milwaukee University

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25 Secretary/ Student Year Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Newsletter Others Representative Editor C Cindy, Fan K.C. Tan Stanley Toops Stanley Toops Haihua Yan UCLA University of Miami Miami University of Guelph University Ohio University Ohio Washington 1997-1998

Kam Wing C Cindy, Fan Stanley Toops Stanley Toops Yehua Wei Chan UCLA Miami Miami UCLA University of University Ohio University Ohio 1996-1997 Washington

Meiling Hsu Kam Wing Stan Toops Phillipe Foret Shew-Juan University of Chan Miami UC-Berkeley Sun Minnesota University of University Ohio 1995-1996 Washington

26 Secretary/ Student Year Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Newsletter Others Representative Editor Gregory Veeck Mei-ling Hsu C Cindy, Fan C Cindy, Fan Shew-Juan Louisiana State University of UCLA UCLA Sun University Minnesota 1993-1995

Joseph B. R. Gregory Veeck Joseph B. R. C Cindy, Fan Additional Board Whitney Louisiana State Whitney UCLA Me Clifton Pannell University of University University of University of 1991-1993 Toronto Toronto Georgia

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27 Secretary/ Student Year Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Newsletter Others Representative Editor Jack Williams Catherrine Michigan State Enderton University UCLA 1987-1989

Charles Greer Charles Greer Indiana Indiana University University 1986-1987

Jack Williams Jaydee Hansen Michigan State Washington, University D.C. 1984-1986

28 Secretary/ Student Year Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Newsletter Others Representative Editor Christopher L. Catherine S. Jack Williams Salter UCLA Enderton Michigan State UCLA University 1982-1984

Larry Ma Franklin Franklin Board members: Jesse Walker University of Gossette Gossette Norton Ginsburg Charles Greer 1979-1982 Akron

Clifton Pannell The China Geographer Specialty Group (CGSG) was established at the 1979 AAG annual 1976-1979 University of meeting at Philadelphia Georgia Rhoads The Committee on Chinese Geography (CCG)was established in 1973 Murphey 1973-1976 University of Michigan

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